Swarnalatha

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IAF 93-99. NAL 01-05. Just a saner denizen.
Environment | Local governance | Anti-consumerism | Road Safety / Defensive Driving | நம் குப்பை நம் பொறுப்பு | മലയാളം | Abhor दिखावा 🙂
Bloghttps://feastforthought.blogspot.com/
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SwarnalathaJun 6, 2025
VeeJun 5, 2025
What's been lost...
Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking result: a 76 percent drop in insect biomass between 1989 and 2016.
It has worsened significantly in the past 9 years.
Photographed at Entomological Society of Krefeld
SwarnalathaJun 6, 2025
View from Elephant HillsMay 22, 2025

Here’s something I want you to read, something that simply had to be said, even as I wish for a world where something like this would never have needed to be written. Here’s why.

First, it concerns a proposed project so monumental in its ambitions as in its folly, and so egregious in its likely destruction of vulnerable human lives and ecologies that it deserves all the attention, critique, […]

https://shankarraman.in/2025/05/22/great-nicobar-greenwashing-a-catastrophe/

Great Nicobar: Greenwashing a Catastrophe

Here’s something I want you to read, something that simply had to be said, even as I wish for a world where something like this would never have needed to be written. Here’s why. First,…

View from Elephant Hills
Show threadSwarnalathaJun 6, 2025
@rohini
plus:
suggest type in tibeT.
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@rohini
https://sanskritkosha.com/
SanskritKosha.com

sanskritkosha - An easy access to 50+ sanskrit koshas.

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@rohini
sanskritkosha.com/
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@rohini
i asked a sibling who is a Sanskrit scholar-teacher. Please see if this helps -
Show threadSwarnalathaJun 5, 2025

"Types of Greenwashing". #WED2025
Additional suggestions:
'greensplaining': "the explanation of something, typically knowledge already known to an indigenous community, by a company's PR or certain Global North professionals, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing."

'greenpainting': When companies & governments launching destructive mega-projects, are proud of what they should really be ashamed about.

Show threadSwarnalathaJun 5, 2025

"AI responses may include mistakes."

They definitely do. QED.

Show threadSwarnalathaJun 5, 2025
The actual source of this infographic is https://honestfashion.org/greenwashing-vs-greenhushing (2023 blog)
Show threadSwarnalathaJun 5, 2025
The search continued:
Result reads "The "hf." in the image refers to Hellman & Friedman, a private equity firm with a website at..." hfDOTcom.